The Centennial Anniversary of the Public Schools of Philadelphia (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Centennial Anniversary of the Public Schools of Philadelphia The public school system of Pennsylvania is the direct outgrowth of the Charity Schools established in our city and state for the education of indigent children. Although William Penn and many of the early immigrants were men of learning and strong advocates of general education, the hard conditions of the American wilderness were not favorable to its promotion. Besides the people were poor and the colony was divided by the religious and political controversies attendant upon the welding together of people from all lands and imbued with greatly divergent thoughts and practices. At the time of the Revolution the population of the state was only about 350, 000 and was so widely scattered that there was little opportunity for strong initiative in any matter demanding the general interest and support of the people. However, such religious organizations as the Society of Friends, the Episcopalians and the Mennonites had kept alive the demands for education, and after the Revolution a more general interest was awakened in communities here and there which resulted in legislation for the establishment of private schools and colleges with certain opportunities for those unable to pay their tuition. In Philadelphia the influence of such institutions as the William Penn Charter School, the Germantown Academy, the Academy on Fourth Street, which afterwards became the University of Pennsylvania, and the schools established by the Episcopalians, began to be felt. But the direct movements leading to public education are to be found in the free classes started at first in connection with the Sabbath school work of the various religious denominations. A "Society for the Establishment of Sunday-schools" had been formed in the city and as early as 1792 had made an appeal to the Assembly for the passage of a law providing for a general system of education. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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